The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. TED talks
We need to create new institutions that are replacement of churches.
Why aren't there good music made by Atheists?
Religion can take the role of ceremony and rituals.
Truth is for us to articulate, to get to the bottom of things.
Cutting edge science is thrilling.
All scientists are all valuable truth seekers.
We need organized fact gathering groups since all journalists are not paid enough and dying away: it is dangerous to us all.
Wikipedia is good.
Occam's razor, Occam's broom
churches for sale now (as of June 2011)
Shermer, drawing on research from neuroeconomics:
1. explores what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and how trust is established in business.
2. shows why people hang on to losing stocks and failing companies, why business negotiations often disintegrate into emotional tit-for-tat disputes and why money does not make us happy.
3. shows how evolution and economics are both examples of a larger phenomenon of complex adaptive systems.
4. considers the consequences of globalization and what will happen if nations allow free trade across their borders.
Life is bottom up (there is no top down design by God ) self organizing emergent complex property
The world is not created by one fell swoop.
Consciousness is our thought.
Invisible hand and natural selection
Is evolution the rank and yank in business evaluation?
It matters for us whether rules are loosely defined (not enforced) or clearly defined in sports and business.
Is Science the arbiter of truth?
Gossiping is an activity of information gathering (data collection)
ultimatum game: 90:10 (unfair??) 50:50 (fair??) It seems silly but is the emotional responses of humans and chimps to the sense of unjust and wrong. It is the laws of economics
Emotions also evolving.
Emotions are proxies that are motivating us to take action: get food if you are hungry
Oxytocin, Dopamine
That's neuroeconomics.
Evolved emotions cause humans to become socially interactive and cooperative.
Enemy of enemy is my friend
Yanomama people fiercely fight: 20,000 indigenous people who live in some 200-250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
Stone-Age Amazon tribe performs a sacrificial ritual rooted in tradition. A child is unwanted and is buried alive.
According to Dr Marcos Pelegrini, a doctor working in the Yanomami Tribe Health Care District, 98 children were killed by their mothers in 2004 alone. Faith vs Reason - Ayn Rand
The Un-Reality of the Universe/Multi-Verse Parallel Universes
What is the real reality
24 The Multiverse and Theories of Everything Prof. Bailyn (ASTR 160) Yale University
Religion Is Mental Illness? - The Atheist Experience
What is The Atheist Experience?
The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals.
TED talks
Daniel C. Dennett on What Should Replace Religions
We need to create new institutions that are replacement of churches.Why aren't there good music made by Atheists?
Religion can take the role of ceremony and rituals.
Truth is for us to articulate, to get to the bottom of things.
Cutting edge science is thrilling.
All scientists are all valuable truth seekers.
We need organized fact gathering groups since all journalists are not paid enough and dying away: it is dangerous to us all.
Wikipedia is good.
Occam's razor, Occam's broom
churches for sale now (as of June 2011)
'The New Atheism' by Richard Dawkins AAI 2007
A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss AAI 2009
Universe is 13.72 Billion years old.Debate: Does the Universe have a purpose
Is Science the arbiter of truth?Christopher Hitchens bookGod Is Not Great- How Religion Poisons Everything
Michael Shermer
Shermer, drawing on research from neuroeconomics:1. explores what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and how trust is established in business.
2. shows why people hang on to losing stocks and failing companies, why business negotiations often disintegrate into emotional tit-for-tat disputes and why money does not make us happy.
3. shows how evolution and economics are both examples of a larger phenomenon of complex adaptive systems.
4. considers the consequences of globalization and what will happen if nations allow free trade across their borders.
Life is bottom up (there is no top down design by God ) self organizing emergent complex property
The world is not created by one fell swoop.
Consciousness is our thought.
Invisible hand and natural selection
Is evolution the rank and yank in business evaluation?
It matters for us whether rules are loosely defined (not enforced) or clearly defined in sports and business.
Is Science the arbiter of truth?
Gossiping is an activity of information gathering (data collection)
ultimatum game: 90:10 (unfair??) 50:50 (fair??) It seems silly but is the emotional responses of humans and chimps to the sense of unjust and wrong. It is the laws of economics
Emotions also evolving.
Emotions are proxies that are motivating us to take action: get food if you are hungry
Oxytocin, Dopamine
That's neuroeconomics.
Evolved emotions cause humans to become socially interactive and cooperative.
Enemy of enemy is my friend
Yanomama people fiercely fight: 20,000 indigenous people who live in some 200-250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
Origin of Faith - Disturbing
Stone-Age Amazon tribe performs a sacrificial ritual rooted in tradition. A child is unwanted and is buried alive.According to Dr Marcos Pelegrini, a doctor working in the Yanomami Tribe Health Care District, 98 children were killed by their mothers in 2004 alone.
Faith vs Reason - Ayn Rand
Cosmology and Fine-Tuning - Robin Collins - Three Approaches
Mathematical design of natureThe Multiverse - Ultimate Causation and God